Shareholding Enquiry

Request share balance or historical information

We can help you with a number of general enquiries about past or present shareholdings. The information below details how to: check a shareholding balance, obtain a share valuation and find historical information about a company or shareholding.

How to...

Request a shareholding balance: We can provide balance information for both certificated and uncertificated (Corporate Sponsored Nominee (CSN)) shareholdings.
You can
click here to obtain this information or request this information by any of
the methods listed below.

A fee may be charged for providing this information and you will be advised of this upon request.

Certificates are not issued for Corporate Sponsored Nominee holdings. Instead, a statement that details the number
of shares held is sent to the registered shareholder annually.

We can only provide balance
information to a third party on the provision of a letter of authority from the registered shareholder. Please send this to us, at the address below, along with the request.

We are unable to confirm the valid share certificates as we do not offer a share certificate validation service.
However, we are able to provide details of the current shareholding, for which share certificates totaling this amount would have been issued.

For certificated and uncertificated shareholdings, balance information can be requested by:

Please note:Banco Santander has its own Registration Services/ login web page. From this you can login to its company-specific share portfolio and/or download company-specific information and forms. Here is the link:

Please note: Banco Santander have their own Registration Services/ login web pages. From these you can login to company-specific share portfolios and/or download company-specific information and forms. Here is the link:

Please note that this service does not provide historical share valuations. If you are looking for historical share price information, do not have access to (or do not wish to set up) a Portfolio, please read below for information about our Share Valuation Service.

Barclays shareholders should also note for Barclays' current and historical share price information, visit Barclays.com/investorrelations and use the share price calculator.

Our Share Valuation Service allows you to gain an indicative value of your shareholdings as at a specific date in the past ten years. This can be useful if you are trying to value your portfolio of assets for a particular point in time. This paid-for service can also be used for an evaluation of an Estate of a deceased shareholder. The Share Valuation will only include shares of the companies for whom Equiniti act as Registrar.

This paid-for service can be used if you need to calculate the value of shareholdings owned by the Estate of a deceased shareholder. Values can be provided as at the date of death. This service is in-line with HMRC’s guidelines (found at www.hmrc.gov.uk) for the valuation of shareholdings belonging to an Estate.

For Share Valuations for the Estate of the deceased, Executors, Legal Representatives and Next of Kin can use this service. The Share Valuation will only include shares of the companies for whom Equiniti act as Registrar.

Capital Gains Tax: If you have a general enquiry concerning Capital Gains Tax, please contact a financial adviser or
HM Revenue & Customs.

A Comprehensive History Schedule of Shareholdings: This can include: dates, transactions,
balances of shareholding(s) for Capital Gains Tax purposes. Please note that this service may incur a fee which, if applicable, you will be advised of upon receipt of your request. Please refer to the contact section below
on how to request this information. Request this information by:

If your question is not answered by the above content, please return to the Help home page (the information you need might be on another page). Alternatively, you can contact us using any of the following methods:

If you are already registered for the Shareview Portfolio service, you can view the balance of your holding(s) and get an indication of their current value by logging in to your portfolio. This can also provide you with information on the number of shares involved in individual transactions, and may be able to validate some of the certificates you hold.

Please note: Banco Santander has its own Registration Services/ login web page. From this you can login to its company-specific share portfolio and/or download company-specific information and forms. Here is the link: